Thomas Muller Quotes

I hate competition.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.

Zidane was the most unpleasant among my colleagues. I have never liked him on the pitch and we have always clashed. Albeit a champion for his class, I have never managed to see his fair play.

Just like in everything else, there are people in football who you don't particularly like.

Football is not always harmonious.

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.

I'm not a trash-talker.

When you are playing, you play as rivals. When off the field, we are friends. I feel that's a good thing. That's the beauty of IPL.

I believe in healthy competition not jealousy.

If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it's much better.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

My goal is to beat you whether you're clean or dirty.

There are some athletes who don't like me.

The nature of football can bring out the best in people, but it can also bring out the worst in people.

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.